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The Badgers are the athletic teams at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The teams compete in the Big Ten conference and the school colors are red and white. The school has won 27 NCAA titles, including six in hockey. Well-known athletes and coaches include Barry Alvarez, Pat Richter, Alan Ameche, Elroy Hirsh, Bob Johnson, Jeff Sauer, Mark Johnson, Joe Thomas, Jolene Anderson, Billy Marek, Alando Tucker, Pat O'Dea, Jim Mott and Ron Dayne.

MADISON, Wis. – On a day in which Wisconsin locked up at least a share of the Big Ten title with a 68-61 victory over Michigan State, Frank Kaminsky might have clinched the league’s award as the top player.
Actually those who watched the Benet Academy...

College basketball student sections can’t be judged merely by the decibels registered from their cheers or by how many undergrads pack a gym on a frigid night.
Face-painted, costume-wearing, vocal-chord-shredding 18- to 22-year-olds make Big...

Instead of heating up down the stretch of the regular season, Illinois is facing its longest losing streak of the season.
The Illini have dropped three straight games. And with only three more regular-season contests remaining before the Big Ten...

They differ on what it would look like and how effective it would be, but the Big Ten men's basketball coaches agreed Monday that if the conference were to make freshmen ineligible, it would have to extend to the NCAA as a whole.
The Diamondback, a...

MADISON, Wis. -- No. 5 Wisconsin had one tough night.
The Badgers were stuck in Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning after the plane that was flying them home from a 59-53 loss at Maryland had to make an emergency landing on Tuesday night because of an engine...

Last season, Illinois won four of its last five regular-season games and just missed the NCAA tournament, relegated to the NIT. In coach John Groce's first season at Illinois in 2012-13, the Illini made a late run, winning six of its last nine...

Maybe early in his career, Illinois coach John Groce said, he would hear about an opponent's injury and view it clinically and detached, seeing it as a competitive advantage.
Now? No way. He has been through too much. Especially this season.
"The...

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin star Frank Kaminsky did not score in the second half Sunday until about four minutes remained against Illinois.No matter.Kaminsky had done enough damage and received plenty of help from his dangerous teammates to dominate...

With his hand still heavily bandaged, Illinois guard Rayvonte Rice dived on the court, fought for rebounds, dunked (with the opposite hand) and played an average of 28.5 minutes the last two games.
"I didn't think he'd be able to play that many...

WEST LAFAYETTE — For Purdue, Sunday's first seven minutes comprised all the makings of what could have been a frustrating and unexpected home loss.
The Boilermakers made only one of their first eight field-goal attempts and one of their first six free...

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Records: No. 5 Wisconsin 22-2, 10-1 Big Ten; Illinois 17-8, 7-5.
Shannon Ryan's quick look: Illinois is more than one game above .500 in Big Ten play in February for the first time since 2010. The Illini...

After a victory that was as emotional as it was exhausting, Illinois coach John Groce compared his team's efforts to that of Seabiscuit's valiant match-race upset of War Admiral in 1938.
"It was his heart," Groce said Thursday after beating...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Purdue has been winning with defense most of the season and lately it is starting to get a little more from big man A.J. Hammons.Hammons had 17 points, seven rebounds, three steals and four blocks and Purdue held Rutgers to 33 percent...

Until Friday afternoon, please call me Bernard.
I'm at NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis for what's called the Mock Selection Exercise, when media members play the role of actual NCAA tournament selection committee members for two days. Bleacher Report's...

Highland Park senior Grace Quirk may not admit it to them, but the soccer standout may have her brothers to thank for getting her started on the road to becoming one of the area's best goalies.
"I've always joked that I play goalie because I don't...

Former Larkin basketball player Kendale McCullum has made a seamless transition to college ball, but it's always easier when you're winning.McCullum's Wisconsin-Parkside team is ranked No. 14 in the latest NCAA Division II rankings with an 19-2 record...